Financial topics

[Higgenbotham]

Yes, it is true that when I summarized the predictions in bullet form and reread them that I found them so shocking that I deleted them. This was despite the fact that, over the years, I have made these predictions piecemeal numerous times throughout this forum.

[aeden]

Interbank Loans, All Commercial Banks (IBLACBW027NBOG)

I think your both correct on many, many points. I am still short and will close that if ten year hits 3% or damn close.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02- ... t-vix-etfs

We warned they will be gutted and sheared.

How do you expect them to perform in a bear market? You guys know this territory from a GD view.

best regards guys

[John]

So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve again?

[Higgenbotham]

So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve again?

I would not want to leave posts like those up for very long.

[Higgenbotham]

So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve again?

I would not want to leave posts like those up for very long.

I was just perusing some trading forums and there is no doubt this thread was being read this weekend in the trading community. This is the first I've seen evidence of that. It appears I left those posts up too long.

[John]

> So what happened to your posts? Did you lose your nerve
> again?

> I would not want to leave posts like those up for very
> long.

> I was just perusing some trading forums and there is no doubt this
> thread was being read this weekend in the trading community. This
> is the first I've seen evidence of that. It appears I left those
> posts up too long.

I don't understand. Those posts describe trades that occurred several
days ago. How would knowing about them now help traders today or in
the future?

[Higgenbotham]

I don't understand. Those posts describe trades that occurred several
days ago. How would knowing about them now help traders today or in
the future?

Traders, since most of them are losers who have no idea how to trade or do anything else (probably wouldn't be hired by any employer either) are not a good addition to a forum like this. They will typically spitball other posters with snide comments and garbage posts like this one:

A stock market crash would not destroy civilization. The market Crash would destroy those entities that heavily invested in the bubble that leads to the crash but largely leave everything else mostly unscathed.

I'm not saying that a stock market crash will destroy civilization. There will be a stock market crash and the stock market will cease to exist in its current form because the underlying growth rate of the economy will not support a financial system of the type that exists today.

The reason the stock market still exists right now is that it's been massively supported with bailouts that the civilization cannot afford and has come at the expense of massively decaying infrastructure and other problems.

[John]

> Traders, since most of them are losers who have no idea how to
> trade or do anything else (probably wouldn't be hired by any
> employer either) are not a good addition to a forum like
> this. They will typically spitball other posters with snide
> comments and garbage posts like this one:

That should get us a few visits by traders.

> A stock market crash would not destroy civilization. The market
> Crash would destroy those entities that heavily invested in the
> bubble that leads to the crash but largely leave everything else
> mostly unscathed.

CH86 or Cynic Hero 86 is not a trader. He's a semi-nutcase visiting
from the Fourth Turning forum. He apparently REALLY hates his father,
and filters everything he says through that hatred. Hence, if
someone sneezes, it's because of Boomers.

[Higgenbotham]

That would be a typical post that a trader would make. The idea would be to make false assertions about any idea that attacks their pre-conceived and rigid notions about how their libertarian-based utopia is supposed to work.

Since freddyv is dead and was a trader who posted on Seeking Alpha, I'll refer back to a post he made. He told me that I would probably give up on the short side right before the market topped. Obviously, his snide comment indicated his ego was super-sized and the bubble killed him (at age 55) before it topped.

[John]

> That would be a typical post that a trader would make. The idea
> would be to make false assertions about any idea that attacks
> their pre-conceived and rigid notions about how their
> libertarian-based utopia is supposed to work.

> Since freddyv is dead and was a trader who posted on Seeking
> Alpha, I'll refer back to a post he made. He told me that I would
> probably give up on the short side right before the market topped.
> Obviously, his snide comment indicated his ego was super-sized and
> the bubble killed him (at age 55) before it topped.

The word for that kind of person isn't "trader." It's "troll."

I get attacked by trolls all the time, and although I would never,
never, never wish any of them dead, I do wish some of them would
disappear.